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Learn how to create your very own jewelry easily following these step-by-step instructions. Each step is presented alongside a helpful photograph, allowing readers to visualize the process of making many different pieces of jewelry, including necklaces, bracelets, and even a tiara! Bright colors and eye-catching designs engage readers as they work on various projects. Readers will have fun creating their own beautiful jewelry to keep or give as gifts.
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Paraiba: The Legacy of a Color
See PDF.] This coffee-table book very much lives up to its name; it is a legacy of colour, as seen in the vibrant appearance of Paraíba (copperbearing) tourmaline. The next section, called ‘The Art of Paraíba’ by Katerina Perez, consists of four parts: ‘A Demanding Hue’, ‘Design Destinies’, ‘Confidence, Brought to Life’ and ‘A Future Star’. [...]there is no table of contents (or index).
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What the Jeweller’s Hand Tells the Jeweller’s Brain: Tool Use, Creativity and Embodied Cognition
The notion that human activity can be characterised in terms of dynamic systems is a well-established alternative to motor schema approaches. Key to a dynamic systems approach is the idea that a system seeks to achieve stable states in the face of perturbation. While such an approach can apply to physical activity, it can be challenging to accept that dynamic systems also describe cognitive activity. In this paper, we argue that creativity, which could be construed as a ‘cognitive’ activity par excellence, arises from the dynamic systems involved in jewellery making. Knowing whether an action has been completed to a ‘good’ standard is a significant issue in considering acts in creative disciplines. When making a piece of jewellery, there a several criteria which can define ‘good’. These are not only the aesthetics of the finished piece but also the impact of earlier actions on subsequent ones. This suggests that the manner in which an action is coordinated is influenced by the criteria by which the product is judged. We see these criteria as indicating states for the system, e.g. in terms of a space of ‘good’ outcomes and a complementary space of ‘bad’ outcomes. The skill of the craftworker is to navigate this space of available states in such a way as to minimise risk, effort and other costs and maximise benefit and quality of the outcome. In terms of postphenomonology, this paper explores Ihde’s human-technology relations and relates these to the concepts developed here.
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Jewellery and Objets D’Art Chains: Stories, Fashions and Techniques of the Most Beloved Jewels By Alba Cappellieri, 2025. The Jewelry Book Ed. by Melanie Grant, 2025. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009172578, 112 pages, ISBN 978-1009172561 or e-ISBN 978-1009172578. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009181686, 102 pages, ISBN 978-1009181679 or e-ISBN 978-1009181686.USD70.00 hardcover or USD23.00 softcover or eBook.
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A New Jewelry Hoard from Eleventh-Century BCE Megiddo
A jewelry hoard was recently uncovered in Megiddo in destruction debris securely dated to the Early Iron Age I. The hoard was found only about 30 m from the Canaanite palace of the city of Stratum VIIA. Three groups of objects contained in the hoard are presented: a bundle of silver objects; a necklace made of electrum, carnelian, and silver beads; and ten elaborate electrum jewelry pieces. An earring from the latter group is a work of art that has never been seen before in the jewelry discovered in the region. In light of the accurate excavation methods of the hoard, its good stratigraphical affiliation, and several additional examinations, such as metallurgy, petrography, and residue analysis, the authors discuss the stages of hoarding and point out the social, economic, and historical circumstances of this unique find.
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The new silversmith : innovative, sustainable techniques for creating nature-inspired jewelry
'The New Silversmith' presents author and jewellery artist Nicole Ringgold's innovative, zero-waste techniques for hand fabricating nature-inspired jewellery pieces from sterling silver.
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